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The Eighteenth Century in Indian History: Oxpord

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The Eighteenth Century

in Indian History
EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION?

Edited by
P.J. MARSHALL

OXPORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contents

Series Note vii


Acknowledgements viii

PART I: GENERAL ASSESSMENTS OF THE


EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

1 The Problem ofthe Eighteenth Century


FRANK PERLIN 53
2 Eighteenth-century India: Another View
BURTON STEIN 62
3 Recent Theories of Eighteenth-century India
M.ATHAR ALI 90
4 The Eighteenth Century in Indian Economic History
IRFAN HABIB 100

PART II: THE POST-MUGHAL ORDER

5 Political Systems in Eighteenth-century India: The Banaras


Region
B.S.COHN 123

6 The Rise of the Corporations


C.A.BAYLY 137
7 Eastern India in the Early Eighteenth-century 'Crisis':
Some Evidence from Bihar
MUZAFFAR ALAM 172
8 The South Indian State and Creation of Muslim Community
SUSAN BAYLY 203

9 Kinship and Pargana in Eighteenth-century Khandesh


STEWARD GORDON AND JOHN F. RICHARDS 240
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10 Assertion
KATE BRITTLEBANK 268

11 Being Jangli: The Politics of Wildness


AJAY SKARIA 293

12 Tributary State
DAVID LUDDEN 319

PART III: THE EUROPEAN INTRUSION

13 Introduction: The Twilight of Mughal Bengal


ABDUL MAJED KHAN 359

14 Prospective: Aristocracy, Finance and Empire, 1688-1850


3 7 4
PJ. CAIN AND A.G. HOPKINS

PART IV: THE NEW BRITISH ORDER

15 The Agrarian Economy and the Dynamics of Commercial


Transactions
RAJAT DATTA 405

Notes on Contributors 457

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